Sunday, January 19, 2014
This week's column discusses the hit-filled compilation "Fred Astaire: The Early Years at RKO," plus a collection of mostly unknown songs by Comden, Green & Styne under the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]This week's column discusses the hit-filled compilation "Fred Astaire: The Early Years at RKO" plus a collection of mostly unknown songs by Comden, Green & Styne under the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2014
An awkwardly insecure girl from the tenements of New York is forced, by societal conditions and a lack of viable options, into...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2014
This month's column screens Robert Altman's 1975 classic "Nashville" and Woody Allen's 2013 instant classic "Blue Jasmine."
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 5, 2014
This month's column looks at Alisa Solomon's "Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof" and Stacy Keach's memoir "All in All."
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2013
This week’s column discusses the original cast album of the Playwrights Horizons production of the Scott Frankel-Michael Korie musical Far From Heaven.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark's co-librettist Glen Berger chats with Playbill.com about the creation of the musical, its lengthy preview period and its long-delayed Broadway opening and u…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 25, 2013
The PBS documentary "What He Did for Love" presents the life of the man behind the music of A Chorus Line and "The Way We Were, " Tony, Emmy, Oscar and Pulitzer Priz…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2013
Tony winner Brian Stokes Mitchell lit up the holiday season with A Broadway Christmas Dec. 20-21 at Avery Fisher Hall. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 22, 2013
This month's column looks at Glen Berger's "Song of Spider-Man," a fly-on-the-wall chronicle of the creation of Broadway's biggest musical; the paperback reprint of &qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2013
As 2013 dwindles down to a precious few -- a precious few plays and musicals, that is -- it is time to compile our list of the ten best of the year. This year, happily, has no less than fift…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 15, 2013
This week's column discusses the original cast album of Dave Malloy's new-style musical Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2013
A Christmas Story is in fine shape at Madison Square Garden. It is a modern-day rarity: a holiday family show that'll enthrall the kids while offering adults flavorful, top-flight entertainm…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:09PM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2013
Madeleine George's play is an intricate puzzle built around the quest to invent machines that bring "better living through technology." There are four Watson characters -- one a ro…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:00PM[SHARE]54 Below presented "It's Today…54 Sings Mame," Dec. 8, featuring Leslie Uggams, Beth Leavel and Hunter Ryan Herdlicka. Playbill.com was there.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2013
This month's column looks at Sam Wasson's comprehensive new biography "Fosse;" "West End Broadway," Adrian Wright's look at American musicals abroad; Carolyn …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2013
In busy spells -- which in the Broadway arena typically include the two weeks before Thanksgiving and the month before the various award deadlines in the spring -- it is not uncommon for cri…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 1, 2013
We have reached that time of the year when we look back over the hundreds of CDs that have come our way since our 2012 holiday column last November and draw a red circle around a few worthy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]We have reached that time of the year when we look back over the hundreds of CDs that have come our way since our 2012 holiday column last November and draw a red circle around a few worthy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Mr. McNally knows how to write funny, and has provided us with much laughter over the years. But not here.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2013
This is a portrait, in four slices, of an American family. Not a typical American family, mind you. These are upper middle class, New York liberals: Baby Boomers dealing with life, family, …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:04PM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2013
The authors mix bleak despair with comic patter, making the plays catnip for a certain caliber of star actor. Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart have joined together to offer the two plays.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 24, 2013
This month's column is led by two favorite classics that we happily return to again and again. This time, though, we've got them in new Blu-ray editions. This doesn't make the fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 22, 2013
O'Brien is unquestionably one of our finest directors. Little enlightenment can be expected from Amanda Peet's The Commons of Pensacola.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown began a week of performances at 54 Below Nov. 18. Playbill.com was there.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2013
Everything about the show is so likable. I left Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder having had a perfectly pleasant time with a pair of talented new theatre-writers, in the company of a …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 17, 2013
This week's column discusses the original cast album of the hit 1972 London revue Cowardy Custard and "Somethin' Real Special," Philip Chaffin's collection of songs wit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2013
700 Sundays is emotionally riveting, uproariously funny, and altogether lovely. I found it smashingly good in 2004 and somehow more gripping last night, perhaps because Mr. Crystal is nine…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:18PM[SHARE]A Bed and a Chair, a collaboration between Tony-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and jazz musician-composer Wynton Marsalis, began its limited engagement Nov. 13 at New York City C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 10, 2013
Playbill.com correspondent Steven Suskin reports on British productions of The Scottsboro Boys and Sweeney Todd. How do these shows compare with the most-recent Broadway productions? How do …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2013
Broadway's Book of Mormon and Once — Best Musical winners from the 2011 and 2012 seasons, respectively — are both ensconced in the West End. How do the productions compare wi…
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